THE INCORPORATED ASSOCIATION OF ORGANISTS BENEVOLENT FUND

Registered charity 216533 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ORGANISTS BENEVOLENT FUND

To help members and former members of the Incorporated Association of Organists or their dependents who have fallen on hard times.Grants to dependents of members or former members of the IAO to assist with course or examination fees in respect of tuition on the pipe-organ.

Objects

TO ASSIST ORGANISTS, WHETHER ACTIVE OR RETIRED, OR THEIR WIVES, WIDOWS, CHILDREN OR DEPENDANTS, WHO ARE IN FINANCIAL NEED. TO QUALIFY FOR ASSISTANCE, THE ORGANIST MUST HAVE BEEN AT LEAST FOR AN AGGREGATE OF TWO YEARS A SUBSCRIBING MEMBER OF ONE OF THE ORGANISTS’ ASSOCIATION OR SOCIETIES AFFILIATED TO THE INCORPORATED ASSOCIATION OF ORGANISTS (‘THE IAO’). THE ASSISTANCE MAY BE IN THE FORM OF A SINGLE OR REGULAR PAYMENTS AND/OR BONUSES OF AN AMOUNT TO BE DETERMINED BY THE TRUSTEES OR, AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES, OF GRANTS TOWARDS THE COST OF ORGAN TUITION AND/OR EXAMINATION FEE FOR DEPENDANTS WHO, AT THE TIME OF THE AWARD HAVE NOT PASSED THEIR TWENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Wrightchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alan Taylor
• Andrew Thomas Seager Millington · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHRISTOPHER PETER STOKES BMUS FRCO · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID SAINT · trustee of 4 other charities
• JAMES PARSONS
• Richard Martin Allen
• Rosemary Field
• The Ven Andrew Edgar Ballard

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Isle Of Man · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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